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RECORD NUMBER: _ 177-10001-10060

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DATE: — 12/18/1963
PAGES: 2

SUBJECTS :
CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT
CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified
“RESTRICTIONS: 1B
CURRENT STATUS: — Redact
DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 10/02/1998

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COUNTRY CUBA "REPORT NO. TOCSpB-3/658, 582

sussect CUBAN GOVERNMENT POLICY TOWARDS PRESIDENT DATE DistR. LS DECEMBER 1963 °
JOHNSON'S ADMINISTRATION :

PRECEDENCE ROUTINE

DATE OF TATE NOVEMBER 196 REFERENCES IN

INFO. 9 3 . 82936
PLACE& 16 DECEMBER 1963

DATE ACQ. .

APPRAISAL FIELD REPORT NO.

THIS is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT tS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE A HIGH-LEVEL CUBAN DIPLOMAT IN WESTERN EUROPE WHO HAS BEEN A FAIRLY RELIABLE
REPORTER OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION.

‘ 1, FIDEL CASTRO WAS VERY UPSET OVER THE CHANGE IN THE UNITED .
STATES ADMINISTRATION BROUGHT ABOUT BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION,
THE TOP CUBAN LEADERSHIP WAS SURE PRESIDENT KENNEDY WOULD “NORA

‘CUBA AND THEY WERE CONVINCED THAT THE POLICY OF HIS ADMINISTRATION
FOR ECONOMIC BLOCKADE AND INTERNAL SUBVERSION AGAINST CUBA WOULD
NOT OVERTHROW THE REGIME, -

2. THE PRESENT POLICY OF THE CUBAN GOVT, ON ORDERS FROM CASTRO,
iS NOT ‘TO ATTACK PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN PUBLIC OR DO ANYTHING TO
IRRITATE HIM, ACCORDING TO CUBAN GOVT, LEADERS, CASTRO WANTS TO
WAIT AND SEE WHAT PRESIDENT JOHNSON SAYs AND DOES ABOUT CUBA,

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